{"id":311561,"date":"2019-04-22T09:21:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T09:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311561"},"modified":"2019-04-22T09:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T09:21:12","slug":"former-bjp-mp-from-hamirpur-suresh-chandel-joins-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-bjp-mp-from-hamirpur-suresh-chandel-joins-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Former BJP MP from Hamirpur Suresh Chandel joins Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311562 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/suresh-chandel-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/suresh-chandel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/suresh-chandel-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/suresh-chandel-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/suresh-chandel-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/suresh-chandel.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Hamirpur, Suresh Chandel joined the Congress on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He joined the party in presence of party president Rahul Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongress President @RahulGandhi welcomes Shri Suresh Chandel into the Congress Party,\u201d Congress party tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Born March 19, 1960, Chandel was a member of the BJP and a three-time MP from the Hamirpur constituency of Himachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was state president of Himachal BJP from 1998-2000 and was also Organisation General Secretary of Himachal BJP from 1988-1998.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Hamirpur, Suresh Chandel joined the Congress on Monday. He joined the party in presence of party president Rahul Gandhi. \u201cCongress President @RahulGandhi welcomes Shri Suresh Chandel into the Congress Party,\u201d Congress party tweeted. Born March 19, 1960, Chandel was a member of the BJP and a three-time MP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,11281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311563,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311561\/revisions\/311563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}